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# How to contribute
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This document outlines some of the conventions on development workflow, commit message formatting, contact points and other
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resources to make it easier to get your contribution accepted.
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## Getting started
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- Fork the repository on GitHub.
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- Read the README.md for build instructions.
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- Play with the project, submit bugs, submit patches!
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## Contribution flow
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This is a rough outline of what a contributor's workflow looks like:
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- Create a topic branch from where you want to base your work. This is usually master.
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- Make commits of logical units and add test case if the change fixes a bug or adds new functionality.
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- Run tests and make sure all the tests are passed.
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- Make sure your commit messages are in the proper format (see below).
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- Push your changes to a topic branch in your fork of the repository.
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- Submit a pull request to pingcap/tidb.
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- Your PR must receive LGTMs from two maintainers found in the [MAINTAINERS](./docs/MAINTAINERS.md) file.
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Thanks for your contributions!
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### Code style
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The coding style suggested by the Golang community is used in TiDB. See the [style doc](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments) for details.
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Please follow this style to make TiDB easy to review, maintain and develop.
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### Format of the Commit Message
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We follow a rough convention for commit messages that is designed to answer two
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questions: what changed and why. The subject line should feature the what and
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the body of the commit should describe the why.
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```
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store/localstore: add comment for variable declaration.
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Improve documentation.
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```
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The format can be described more formally as follows:
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```
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<subsystem>: <what changed>
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<BLANK LINE>
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<why this change was made>
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<BLANK LINE>
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<footer>(optional)
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```
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The first line is the subject and should be no longer than 70 characters, the
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second line is always blank, and other lines should be wrapped at 80 characters.
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This allows the message to be easier to read on GitHub as well as in various
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git tools.
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If the change affects more than one subsystem, you can use comma to separate them like `util/codec,util/types:`.
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If the change affects many subsystems, you can use ```*``` instead, like ```*:```.
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For the why part, if no specific reason for the change,
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you can use one of some generic reasons like "Improve documentation.",
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"Improve performance.", "Improve robustness.", "Improve test coverage."
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